Westbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A C15-16 Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Westbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-paling-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Westbury Farmhouse, West End, Ashwell, SG7 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 262 394
- Coordinates
- 52.03948, -0.16048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbury Farmhouse is a timber-frame house dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, originally built as a hall house with jettied cross wings. It has undergone alterations and additions, particularly in the mid- to late-19th century. The house is constructed with painted stucco walls and a brick base, set upon a timber frame. It is two storeys high and features four bays, with the central two bays containing wide-chamfered crossed floor beams, likely inserted later. The front elevation has four 2/2-pane sash windows in flush, moulded frames, with three on the ground floor being triple hung. A door towards the right has two flush panels and four moulded panels, topped with a cut bracket hood. A single-storey lean-to addition is present on the left end, featuring a sash window. A rebuilt stack is located near the left cross wing. The right cross wing has a two-bay rear extension dating to the mid-17th century, with sash windows in the rear bay. A large ridge stack with ovolo-moulded bays and 19th-century renewed shafts is present. A gabled stair turret with a leaded window projects on the east side.
Local climate
Westbury Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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